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POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES. Inua NsiaiVs Pat Plssenrs. Uakaaad Mrw Vmtm, We laugh at women because now and then they have what they call "a good cry" and seem to enjoy it and to feel better for it; bat men do the same thing in a different way. They do not cry, being ashamed to cry, bat they get drunk on stimulants or evolve dry debauches of morbidness from within themselves and on their wives or other friends or on whomsoever they can catch and hold they bestow vast accumulations of bitterness and wrongs and troubles and sorrows. Human nature docs not anjoy more keenly any pleasure than that of being thoroughly miserable, deeply im pressed with the injustice and cruelty of the world and the hope lessness of life. If we did not have troubles or make them for our •otat of us aight.be completely and permanently happy; and that, for good reasons and wise purposes, is forbidden. A Tale •( hr* ClUee. Aye. a! Naay Cities. >n»»lhCw»ut,U ClMitott* Oborm. Last year a "blue-eyed girl, wearing a dean, white dreaa," left her home in Cleveland county and came here—alone. She knew not sin. Bnt she was penniless, and in the darkened city there was welcome to her only from - fonl-montbed hags who trade In human souls. And so the child stnmbled on into the night, and her blue eyes became dulled and her white dress was besmirched. Suppose- bnt why suppose? You know the condition that eaiats. Continually there come to this town young giris whoseek work. They use helpless, ignorant, unprotected. What salvation might come if they knew that when temptation is hardest they can dec to a house of refuge that shames not? It is all right to drag the unfortunates from their painted misery, but is it not better to fight for the dear-eyed, children who do not want to fall, yet mnit fall? Thu Way ha Out Ms. Injury. Vilaiwm Star. The Pension Office at Washington has recently received an application for a pension from a veteran of the war between the States, who concluded be would save money by writing the appli cation himself without the assistance of a pension attorney. When he was asked by the Pension Bureau to state the circumstances under which he incurred his disability, he candidly responded as follows: "The way I got my war ingery was a ketchiu of a hog. The hog was a sow bog and ur captain wanted her for forege. We was chasin’ tire sow, and she crawled threw a hoal in a rale fence. It was u Mg hoal, and I thot I was about the sis of the bog and tried to crawl threw, but 1 stub, and tain’ to wigle out I throde the rales off and one hit me on my hed and nocked me senseless. I do not think the sow pig bad nothing to do witfi my line oi duty, for I did not kech the hog. Wich she never was cant. CaOtw-sWwatr-,.... The proverb that money is the root of all evil has not yet entirely lost its force. Money la not as inevitably associated with violence and corruption as it was in earlier times, but it is still difficult <to manage with a clean soul. Knowledge, understanding, talent and sympathy, for Instance are possessions which may be kept more easily without evil. The wholesome activities which have recently been at work in exposing corruption throughout the country have traced much of it to the interests of business, or, in other words, of money. Missouri is just now ringing with infor mation about trickary and bribery, in which the prominent actors wet* the sworn public servants of the people and the State. A bribre of the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor and several Senators, is a baking powder company, which induced these high officiate to seek legislation against a rival concern, and to concoct, for that Purpose, tricks as elaborate as those of any swindling com pany extant The Governor of a still greater State, while re maining on the windy side of the law, has lost the respect of the people by his devotion to the interests of a grocery firm with which he is identified. If a boss rales a city, his power rests on the complaisance of the business man, who find it easier to bribe than to suppress him. If the National Legislature commits some disgraceful act, behind it will be found fngar, oil or some othar form of money. There are evau now advantages in being poor, and still greater advantage* in not wishing too ardently to be rich. Vnua’a Youth. MUm1! Wsskt*. Women who grow old most quickly arc thorn whose interests an the uarrownt. Those who stay young longest an those whose minds and spirits ate ied by action and by ehsngiqg impressions. Thom who ate youngest at thirty « theTelt iutriHg^ Climate help* in the temperate sons, hut that climate does little, without customs, la shown in the lace of the blighted American wooma who at twenty-live looks older t^aa her free and en lightened compatriot at forty. One of the raasous that man has grdwn older later tfaaa women is that he has had a mom free and active role to play. One of the reasons that married women were fanwriy the oaly ones who had a chance of escaping early age wn that when the unmarried passed a certain stage she was laid upoa the shelf, aad the shelf is a poor place for any human plant to ntalu Its sap and foliage. ‘ Another foreign visitor, this time an Italian, comas forward to coagratnlate America oa the happy aspects of bet youth. Late marriage, which la so often regretted by coaveatiaaal philosophers among as, seems fo this Italian eda C?°Z ^JZVit.a0t °*lr 01 • h«“hY Of responsibility, but , .°*r women to remain young longer thda is pos sible in some older sstloas. In this secret, of ekteadlag woman's yooth through some additional lustres, oar foreign visitor lads the “*w4 °i<mr "8o*« lustres* Isa long time. It em hardly nreunUro thaafiftsen years, aad yet it dona not aeem evagiarsted. This exfratioa of woman’s yoath is obtaiaed partly by mmrofos and diet, bat j" more by widened opportunity, by ' by abuadeacc of Hie. The way to live long fo to live , sad oae of the wisest things young America bha done fo to •pea the doom of opportunity aad of lasting yooth to womaa WU» AJIIWAL lUSlMtSS 5mm Pacta Abort a Koaaaatlc "A wild animal dealer haa to take all tbe risks,” said one of the moat experienced wild animal collectors in tbe United States. "The shows and men acenea and parka that buy from him don’t pay for an animal until it U delivered. Generally they want it delivered in the place they have act for it. Sometimes they will take it at the ship or at the train, but usually they expect oa to deliver the beast right In their place. "Consequently the risk is enormous and we have to charge * price that will make up for the danger of loaa. We cannot insure our beasts during trans portation except in rare in •tancea. If they die during a voyve or are washed overboard or thrown into tbe aea to save the ship, the loss is ours. The only insaranee we can get aa a rule is insurance aa cargo, which we can collect only in case the ship itself is lost. "Now we heve just had one experience that illustrates my point. We shipped an im mense lot of exceptionally fioc animals in Calcutta—four baby elephants, (five tigers from Bengal, four leopards, and about hundred cranes, some of which were so rare that they had not even been identified by Indian soologiau. We also had thirty-five serpents, among them a python twenty feet long. "Well, our animal men who accompanied the shipment cot them through all right lor thirty-three day* until we struck the Newfoundland banka, when a sleet storm hammered the ship, and for a night ahe labored through tremendous ice seam that swept her deck continual ly. "Canvas and straw were piled aronnd the animals and every thing was done by our men that was possible. Bnt when morn ing came three elephants, three tigers, all the rare cranes, snd every one of the snakes lay dead and bad to be thrown over board. "Thisahows why wild animals cost so much. And there are many other risks. Last year one of the big American animal dealers heard from a beast catcher In Rangoon that be bad seven feet ^OThSti WU r^Docer* *n P®*1 "He sent a cable message at once accepting the animals and then hnmedly had timbers cut and shaped to build the great pens that are necessary to bold powerful beasts like these on a steamship. "Well, the expense of these pens and the freight charges for shipping them from America moT^, lmlf way around the world, made a big item in them selves. Then there were the ex penses of tke dealer and the three assistants whom he had to take with him. "After their long yoyage to Rangoon they found a difficult trip into the interior before them. They had to drag the heavy tim bers for tbs pens with them, knowing from bitter previous ex perience that the Oriental animal catchers would be provided with nothing except bamboo cages— tough and strong enough so long as they are stationary, but almost sore to work apart when they are moved over bad roads. "At last they reached their ob jective point and then, after ell their work and expenditure, they fottttd three ns ill, ilclclj, end poor specimens. Wot one of them was in con* dltion to be shipped even to the const, not to mention the long ocean voyage to America. So here was almost four months wasted, many thousands of dol ls** lost, and wont of all no rhinoceros at the very time when n dosen menageries were offer ing big amounts of money for specimens. "S®* we have no redress. Wild animal dealers, in the na torn of the case, have to do bust neaa with native hunters, who "•**}*" luncnshle to law or KSfctfsS&Brc ".T®0 can’t send the police out *crv* * warrant or papers la a “ft* Jr tod neighbors. If be fails to heap Us contract with ns, «« ■*?E!X JiT1 to grin and be.r It. wild animals, and they handle the cargoes With sack nnwilling Ww&riSrisrjASK the beast because they are afraid to get uear enough to H to guide or ewing it properly. "1 have often put my arm into a eaga and rubbed a tiger or a lion merely in order to snow the crew of the ship that they need not be apprehensive. Bat they generally don’t do anything ex* cept to grin sheepishly and say, All nght, mister. You’re wel come to do them kind of foolish things all yon please. We'd rather not.' "The consequence is that when a storm comes and the mss sweep the vessel and tear a fr0™ their fastenings, the wild animal men rarely get any help from the crew and many a rare and valuable beast has been lost merely becasse every body was afraid of it. "It is a sight to see the trouble and excitement that attand the shipment of a giraffe. We can't drive the tall, frightened brute up the gangplank, of coarse. Tbe giratfe is so nervous that it would leap into the sea. "So we haul it up in its crate, with ha long neck sticking out, end every minute ol the time we watch with fear (cat it should get so excited while it is being swnng on board, that it will thrash its bead against the side oi the ship and either break its neck or fracture its skull. "The least excitement drives • giraffe so frantic that it leaps with uncontrollable fear. The greatest damage is that it will break its legs. They ere so long end thin end the brute is so un gainly^ and awkward when con fined in a small space that the least trip or stumble will bring it crashing down and then it is good-by giraffe!" "Thu is largely because a giraffe needs a good manyyarda of space for one step. There fore, although it is so graceful and swift when it lopes over an open plain where its long legs can spread far out as it runs, it is a poor, shuffling, clumsy thing when it has to move in a pen. a girane catcues coin easily, and it is no fun to dose it when it has to be done on a rolling, staggering ship. "The girale is a bad sailor, too, although not so hard as camels that usually act like spiteful, fretful, vindictive chil dren. They get homesick and moan and complain like selfish human beings. "The elephant is a good old sailor man. He takes whatever comes along and never says a word. It is a little bard on him to get no green food on a long voyage, and sometimes tha dry food spoils his stomach. Then we have to give him mighty doaea of physic. He doesn't like that, and as there isn’t much room to jnmp rround on a ship, there are more comforta abte jobs than being a doctor to sick elephants on the ocean. "No, the wild animal dealer does not have an easy sad de lightful life as all the young folks think when they read about his romance trips into romantic lands after romantic beasts. It’s a hard calling, and only a few grow rich from. it. Yet none of os ever seems to want to leave it once be gets well into it.” A c*r«M r«p»n SMan •TO bet I can eet a beepiny table* menafal of cayenne pepper nlthoat bUnklny.” declared Jinn »y:»r of WUkeeberre, Pa, to Store l.i l. rtuan. who a year aye bet ho eouM »tt oo a hot radiator km*ar than another as 1 ham H which an yea caaaot” •aid tie—Ml HayVjr toefc the pepper, epaaad hto •sooth wMo tad anlpod It down. Ho dM net cry far help, and ao team ran down his cheek. Usb— *“-•*-* oeor the in neey sad thsa aalCed tha popper. He thooaht It was Mek daat *—* w an »■ • * ea UNIQUE 0R6INIUTI0I. OnlyMil JOta a •d Un * So oao wtu bo ohgfblo to nwtoi •top who to* am a olga of toir ana tho Mg to too hood. ~ top i at too wHJ art onto oo tour oo too top to too poto to onooto oad ohtor. Tho pclawrp ofejoet to too ctah wto ho to ptwrtoo a ptooo whooo ——ij WtoW^tafeiotoM. Vt'wOI whoa the? wood it am tedded to • cocoot trip to Dr. giowao to aa otot ora dtp waa too laapiradoa for too or goaiMtleo to too dab. no doctor woat ttoo a feaafe te a ottaago top aad wao waartag a wig. “Arc poo Or. ffirootoa too gtoi JJm Of. McC wao too coatp. tPjtar a aouuad aad palatod la a MU* partial to to heewe o^te^ fww"*nJdaw tor aaw too potat aad. ruaiii^ too wtg. ha dapd orpcaod oo tho oclgtaal to tho MUboaid ptotaraa. 11 to ebaeft Whos tho doctor rotaraod'hoctoThO roUtod bio oapertoaea to wat to hfc haMhndod fricada. aad wbllo (beg WMw loaghtag at too rttotiliar waafe dor a wig thop coaodcod too Mae to ptwddteg a wap te which Y~‘i"--|lil r **--‘-TI T^lhcto hdag oafejoctod to too haaUlattoa to taklag to tbeir wtga TboaKwaodo ddad to maho toe dab a aortot orgta lactiao aa area aa on tdotoldtodcto Hmw. ■ K. P. Whelan. „_ director af cfcarttlea ate_ BUly Hayward. Captain Percy W. Ilea, Dated It* tea Mantel Prate X Otetelar, CMaf af Poriee Oaaqa I Corner, L X Paldbelm. 3. X MMWL U J. Bnaaaa, die contneter; Canatfl au William M. Bayne. Jobs X Bleed, Jack Many. W. X Dart* ItoUee tte Maaaym One Harts af th anna Opera Howe. Prad orcr, ate C ' ‘ » ■» «te-j pn. if tte Poraat City ‘We win have a lao* weltia* tat, too." aoM Ur. Drew.^-Qn tteiwut te , Mayer ■toy, npteatandl _J Mac trie railway; ---1 af tte devedaad CMy rnOway. Teas Roae. Marty Oaal af tte taka More railroad, all af whew w« aaad a little placktn* before tte* cam I . , Ot m • «a to beta* rvadiMtol family to tte WWto Hoorn ar one da moth af tte new woat tarttea ate r. IU be ready ter aae to a tow days, wire a Waafclactob until to tte Haw Tart Tim *. Tte k-ratew af tte eanrt eras tenacity tte rite af aanatter of batteoaaa ate af tte Bttto atom of 1te bead *»lricncr am ,-*rMta Pototo ■bsereatte**1 TteTrart twna from eari to want ate to tote TP byte Itet U i« -ap* tad it w« bathe baft ti ttN city. «5JSs‘-tirr=s **I *WIMII1|H tt» tfcin w—u > l*»—*< * i* rf«Fww" wMfc *£"§8885 - Cotae in, one and all. Owr door* are always opes to tomen and friends. We now have on hand of nice new Vehicles fast ont of the factory. - loor several nice rnbbcr-tfr* Banks that « seU. We havealotof OU Hkfcoty Ws though we have sold a great any Cultivator on the market lo^ay k the atari • ^ ^ «®*« -»d get one or two and _ think it is one of tbt bast labor saving km i_ _ We atill have aevetal fine on bead. They are all nice driven, gukt and gentle. Ml naB broke. Cril and sec them before n> bay (nMuanyooerise. 1 Craig and Wilson ... •■■WsBrnmlm SUMMER DAYS SHORTENED Tht days and months of summer will not seem *> long and hot if you own one of our delightful HAMMOCKS What a blessing to wife, or mother, or «—m or ti»e4 workers rwnwimi So often fa summer yon are oppressed by the feast and want to He down to rest. But'on a bed or kmogc—there’s tht heat stfil, yon caa’t es> capa from it Again, the day's wossisa make tired nerves, and tired serves make a little composure and comfort so welcome, j : j A hammock’s the thing. lag haworl there’s nothing under yon, between yon *n4 the teesnss of the wide, wide world, n ipt the cool, strong, open netting. The whole world hill of fresh air is free to low ever yott sad under you and wound yon, and you have nothing to do hot awing and anUu and lost in soft streams of comforting coolness. It's re yMmg. It's refreshing. It w01 mahs pm itol batter. That "tired feeHag”—you can fed it ooafng not and gattiag away fmna yon when yonVs In one of our hammocks. i • ' • 4 ' For your summer hammock, come to hammocklheadquarters* We sell the hafinmock, you do the rest. MARSHALL’S BOOK STORE, ON THE CORNER.
Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.)
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